Sferics, anutha take

[hudson bell]

in reading 'V.' last week and thinkin shortly over the Mondaugen message,
 i think that it is important to look at TP's use of the word
'case' in the novel....

of course the line "The world is all that the case is"
 in this it doesn't have to mean what its predecessor wanted or meant as you
all surely know, that is the reason for all the takes...is this phrase an
equation? like Kilroy was a diagram?

on page 453 (bantam)-- 
    "    Could Stencil have sneered "God's will"; not likely.  His
     case wasn't yet that far advanced.  The Church's will, certainly,
     and Fairing was the type to bow to Authority.  Here was after all
     another Englishman.  So they were, in a sense, brothers in exile."

in this phrase it seems that the word case, in Pynchon's use, applies to a
whole......animate or inanimate (?)....which progresses to a certain truth (?)--
Stencil couldn't say that because he wasn't sure of it...he wasn't that 'far
advanced' but he could see that it was the 'Church's will', that showing
that Stencil had an average case, the case of a human on Earth...where as if
the world could think or know...it would know what created it and if their
was a God that orchestrated the universe...and each soul.   The Church was
an Authority then Stencil's logic moved down to Englishman, then
brothers...he was very logical in his choice of words...he knowing of a
truth, a fact, was the case.

therefore if in the phrase that Weismann revealed from the sferics,  wouldnt
it basically be saying that the world is all that the truth is...the only
truth that we could find was in the world---the search was confined to the
earth...therefore Mondaugen was done with his study of the sferics and left
to go search in the world for this truth....his equipment had no more use.
          the people of Fondl's party were not human to him..they looked
"dehumanized and aloof, as if they were the last gods on earth"....

The most advanced and pure case was the earth, the world, 
Mondaugens interest in the sferics, the search for the answer of them, and
young Stencil's search for V. have a reasonable parallel---

----i don't know though, this was a bit of my take on it,
     what ya'll think?

  i think another good question for variation would be the instance of old
Godolphin (i believe), getting to the pole and finding the spider-monkey
frozen looking at him, to know that Vheissu had been there......